Disbanding the U.S. Dept. of Education?

Anybody else think this is a great idea? No more dictating to the states what is to be taught. No more state funding by the federal govt. No more indoctrination of our children. No more protection of defunct state education systems. Sink or swim.

to Dude-how would you go about "fixing" the American Family. This would mean a change to the 14th Amendment. Family life is a NO-GO area, especially for the govt. The problem is within the public school system, not the private American family.

I think this is worth studying....This is a perfect example of how the Federal Government has usurped the rights of the States to take care of their local issues on a local level. The U.S. Constitution specifically was designed to limit the scope and reach of the Federal into the daily lives of State and Local Government. Couple this with the fact that the Teachers' unions have climbed into bed with the D.O.E., and it certainly makes sense to explore this. Unfortunately, with the political climate these days, I can't see it ever actually happening. The Liberals want the Status Quo, and the Conservatives are afraid to even breathe wrong for fear of losing any voters. Well, we can dream, anyway. By the way, I find it ironic that a question about education would have answers so full of ridiculously obvious spelling and grammar problems.

Besides the snide remarks about my writing style (I'm on the Internet fool), I agree with you fully. Report It

No more useless programs like No Child Left Behide....too bad the program was left behide and unfunded.

Its a great idea, waste of tax payers money. Since its creation...education has gotten A LOT worse.

The # 1 problem with our education system is the parents. We can't fix the education system until we fix the American family structure.

dasuberd......Sorry, but you are wrong. While it is true that the government can not invade families, many of the problems in the educational system are a reflection of the break down of the American family. Until the family unit is strengthened, things will never get better in our education system. By saying that the American family needs to be fixed, I am saying that WE AS A SOCIETY must choose to make changes in our culture to improve the American family. Fixing the education system is not in the government's hands, it is in our hands as a society. We must make the choice to strengthen our family unit and, as a result, we will strengthen our educational system.

It would be the children that would loose not the states.

IDGAF we all pay taxes and the education is for the future generation of kids to come.

I wish I could say I agreed, since I am opposed to big government, but this country is already way behind the rest of the world in education, and we can't afford to do even less to improve it. What we actually need is a stronger department, not having anything to do with money, but requiring certain curricula and standards. If we turn it back to the states, there will be some states that will teach one science but not another. We need a nationalized educational standard, but a local funding and administration system.

Don't be rediculous.

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The States will lose out instead of the kids. Dude, right on about parents the buck starts there.
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While I agree that we are in need of a compleate over haul of the public education system in The United States. I do not think disbanding the USDE is a good thing.

No child left behind was stupid and did absolutly nothing to futher our childrens education.

We need a way to make sure that all kids in all states recieve the same education. We need to clean up and recover schools in the inner cities and turn them back over to the teachers and faculty.

I think we need to keep the USDE but really cut back its power.

I also think that the teachers are much to do with this. They are teacing 10 different ways to do a simple math problem non of which are simple. Some of these ways actulay make the problem more complacated that it really is. Our kids are getting fatter by the day, I can not tell you how many little boys i see at my kids elementary school that need bras because they have man boobs. They get one 10 minute recess each day and only have PE 2 times a week Then to top all that off they are allowed to have fat filled carbohydrate packed unhealthy foods. How is it that when I went to school we have a recess in the morning after lunch and in the afternoon and yet we did more school work and no homework and we did pe every stinking day?